Mission: Impossible (TV Series 1966–1973) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. Creator: Walter Townsend, an enemy agent working in the U.S., has been allowed to obtain false information that, if believed by his home country, will cause its leaders grave embarrassment (and discredit ... 8.9 The IMF is up against a contract killer who makes decisions at random at the last minute to ensure his moves are unpredictable. As Barney stands in for the intended victim, the IMF must prepare for ... 8.7 The team's latest mission has them trying to root out a network of spies, who were brought in by an American photographer. The problem is the code that he and his handlers communicate with is ...

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Stars: William Conrad, Patrick Culliton, Tom Pittman 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X Sam McCloud is a Marshal from a Taos, New Mexico, who takes a temporary assignment in the New York City Police. His keen sense of detail and detecting subtle clues, learned from his experience, enable him to nab unsuspecting criminals despite his unbelieving boss. Stars: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter Mannix worked originally for Wickersham at Intertect and then struck out on his own, assisted by Peggy Fair (whose cop-husband had been killed) and police department contact Tobias. Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Ward Wood Two Secret Services agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West. Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Dick Cangey Edit Storyline Jim Phelps is the head of a super-secret government agency ("Impossible Missions"), and is often given secret anonymous covert missions to attempt; quite often they are unmasking of criminals or the rescuing of hostages. He picks his team depending on which tasks need to be done.

One thing is vital on an Impossible Mission: the mission must be carried out in entire secrecy, often relying on high-tech equipment and elaborate deceptions. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> See All (32) » Taglines: The IMF back in action. With Peter Graves and Leonard Nimoy again handling the team of derring-doers of the impossible (season 5) See more » Genres: 17 September 1966 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Greg Morris performs in all but 1 show from the series,"A Spool There Was", from November 12th, 1966. ... but he is the 'only' cast member to appear in all 171 opening credits, including this show. See more » Goofs In numerous episodes a very tiny black "tape player" is used. It is identifiable by the aluminum tape reels which each have three holes. This was a dummy prop and, in several shots, it is obvious that the tape is a continuous loop running around both reels since the shiny aluminum center of the "takeup" reel is visible rather than the brown tape color.

See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits Many episodes end with a freeze-framed pan-and-tilt shot of the IMF team's getaway vehicle, with series creator Bruce Geller's credit superimposed over the shot. See more » Connections Original , Inspired ,Clever well constructed series. 2 October 1999 | by DB-55 (Auckland, New Zealand) – See all my reviews A great series full of original, inspired ideas. Recite "This tape will self-destruct etc..." and instantly everybody will be able to tell you where that line came from. Usually at the end of each episode you got to enjoy the bad guys realization that he has been out-done by the skillful planning of the I.M.F team. Not surprising that this series was so good since it came at a time when Herb Solow at Desilu studios had a big hand in production affairs..his other other responsibility was another legendary series ...Star Trek. The new film version "starring?" Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment. I hear that original series cast member Greg Morris called the new film "blasphemy". Right on Greg !!

I wish Greg that it was possible to turn back time and have you and Peter, Martin, Barbara, Leonard and all , here to give us more truly great entertainment. 26 of 26 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Jim Phelps | Villains Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia To be the major player in a conspiracy (under the alias of Job). Type of Villain Double Agent Jim Phelps is a character in the 1966 Mission: Impossible television series as well as its 1988 revival. Throughout both series runs, he serves as the main protagonist. However, in the 1996 Mission: Impossible film, Phelps is the hidden main antagonist. He is portrayed by Peter Graves in the television series. Due to Graves not wanting his character to become the villain, he refused to play the role in the film. Thus, in the 1996 film he is portrayed by Jon Voight. Contents Biography Original TV Series Phelps served in the Korean war. He later joined the IMF in the 60's, before retiring in the 70's. However, after his successor was killed, he was brought out of retirement in 1988.

Mission Impossible (film) By 1996, Phelps has become disillusioned as he believes he is no longer necessary, despite having served his country for over four decades. By this time, he has married a much younger woman named Claire, and has been given an entirely new team. Finally snapping, Phelps convinces Claire to go along with his plan to sell sensitive IMF information to an arms dealer, Max, for a large sum of money. He is almost caught, but manages to kill off his team during a Prague mission to stop the theft of a non-official cover (NOC) list of the IMF (which is later revealed to be a mole hunt) and frame rookie team member Ethan Hunt, who looks up to Phelps as a father figure. For the job, Phelps hires disavowed IMF pilot Franz Krieger to help carry out the murders. In the end, Phelps, Claire, and Krieger successfully kill off three of their teammates as well as their target. During this, Phelps manages to fake his own death by getting shot and falling off a bridge. Phelps then has Claire return to use her charms on Ethan, who has been successfully framed for the murders, as well as being the mole.

Ethan concocts a plan to avenge the rest of the team and clear his own name by catching the real mole and stopping him, as well as Max. As the NOC list the team recovered in Prague was a fake, Hunt decides to steal the real list in order to draw the mole out of hiding. After making a deal with Max in exchange for some money, Ethan hires a couple disavowed agents for his mission. He chooses computer expert Luther Stickell, while Claire "suggests" Krieger. After Ethan's plan succeeds, the IMF has his family framed for drug trafficking. After Hunt uses a payphone to alert the IMF of where he is (London), Phelps reveals himself to Ethan, claiming he survived getting shot. He then names IMF Director Kittridge as the mole. However, Phelps had underestimated Ethan, who is able to quickly determine that Phelps himself is the mole, and that he hired Krieger to pull off the murders, though he remains unsure if Claire was involved. When Hunt asks why "Kittridge" would do such a thing, Phelps uses his own reason: that he had believed he was becoming "a worthless piece of hardware not worth upgrading" due to the end of the Cold War.

Hunt returns to the hotel his team is using for a temporary base of operations and, clearly distressed over what he has learned, lets Claire seduce him. The next day, aboard a high-speed train, Phelps, realizing Ethan likely figured him out, hides as he watches Hunt reveal that Claire was in fact in on the treason. By this time, Hunt has given Max the real NOC list and is having Stickell use a jamming device to prevent Max from uploading it. After a tense standoff in one of the rear luggage cars (during which Phelps takes the money from Ethan), Claire reveals she feels guilty about what she has done and tries to prevent Phelps from killing Hunt, causing Phelps to kill her instead. An enraged Ethan then gives chase to Phelps, who is using suction cups to make his way along the top of the train to the end, where Krieger is flying a helicopter to make their escape. During the fight, Ethan manages to hook the tether of the helicopter to the train, forcing Krieger to pilot the copter into the Channel tunnel. After freeing the tether, Phelps motions for Krieger to simply pick him up with the bottom of the copter.

However, Ethan hops onto the copter as well, and plants a piece of exploding chewing gum (a relic of the Prague mission) onto the copter, before jumping back onto the train. The gum causing an explosion which kills Krieger, and causes the copter to fall onto Phelps, crushing him. Gallery Add a photo to this gallery Trivia Some fans of the Mission: Impossible television series were upset when they learned that Phelps would become an irredeemable antagonist in the 1996 film. This also caused Peter Graves, who portrayed Phelps in the original series, to turn down the chance to play Phelps in the film. Therefore, most of the show's fans considered the film series based on the original television series to be non-canon because of this. 14 Facts You Might Not Know about Mission: Impossible - Neatorama Neatorama • 0 Good morning, Neatoramanauts. From 1966 to 1973, the innovative television show Mission: Impossible presented the adventures of the Impossible Missions Force. This top secret American agency found stolen nuclear bombs, exposed counterfeiters, rescued captured spies and foiled criminal plots at home and abroad.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to learn things that you might not know about the show. 1. The show was inspired by the criminal heist movie Topkapi and was originally entitled Briggs’ Squad. In the early drafts, the team members were semi-reformed criminals who had served together in a special forces unit and proven unable to re-adjust to civilian life. Barney was a compulsive gambler and card cheat. Cinnamon was a drug addict. Rollin Hand was a thief. Willy Armitage beat women while working as a strip club bouncer. The series creator, Bruce Geller, cleaned up their backgrounds to make the show more appealing. 2. The self-destructing tape scenes were usually shot all at once, once a year for each season. The tapes didn't actually disintegrate. A special effects technician created that impression by blowing smoke through a tube into the recorder. 3. The voice on the tape belonged to Robert Johnson, an accountant turned voice over artist. For the pilot episode, he was paid $125. Since the pilot sold, he kept coming back and, for several years, would record his part every few weeks. His character was never identified during the series. 4.

After learning about the mission, Dan Briggs or Jim Phelps would return to his apartment to select agents from a portfolio. The rejected photos in these agent selection scenes were usually pictures of crew members or their wives. In the screenshot above, Dan Briggs is looking at a photo of Bruce Geller. Even though he created Mission: Impossible, Geller doesn't get to go on this mission. 5. Steven Hill played Dan Briggs, the IMF's leader at the beginning of the series. Hill had an abrasive personality at that time. He repeatedly clashed with directors and producers, and they ultimately fired him at the end of the first season. Hill was eventually able to overcome these issues and become a successful actor, most famously playing the role of District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order . 6. In the meantime, directors settled on Peter Graves to replace Hill as Jim Phelps, the new leader of the IMF. Graves came from an acting family: his brother, James Arness , played Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke . ( Video Link ) 7. Peter Graves was a serious actor, but he didn't take himself too seriously.

He was quite willing to parody his Mission work, as you can see in this Oldsmobile commercial from the 1980s. 8. Graves wasn't the only person to parody Mission: Impossible. The exploding assignment message was a recurring gag on Inspector Gadget . ( Video Link ) 9. The spy comedy series Get Smart went to even greater lengths in the episode "The Impossible Mission." Agent Maxwell Smart learns about his mission on a tape recording hidden in a bus station. He has some technical difficulties with it. Smart returns to his apartment to select agents for the mission, just like Dan Briggs and Jim Phelps did. But Smart's options include Alfred E. Neuman and the Mona Lisa. 10. Gene Roddenberry recruited Martin Landau to play Spock on Star Trek. Landau turned down the role to play Rollin Hand, the master of disguise on Mission: Impossible. Later, during the fourth and fifth seasons, Leonard Nimoy, who did play Spock, starred in Mission: Impossible as Paris. Nimoy's character was designed to replace Rollin Hand after Martin Landau left the show at the end of the third season. 11.

Barbara Bain played Cinnamon Carter, the glamorous model/agent on the Impossible Missions Force. She was married to Martin Landau during the show's run. Landau and Bain went on to star together in the British sci-fi series Space: 1999. 12. The show took place during the Cold War, and the team often went on missions behind the Iron Curtain. But all foreign nations were referred to pseudonymously, such "Eurasian Union" instead of the Soviet Union. The writers created a fake language that they called Gellerese, after the producer, Bruce Geller. It served as the generic language for signs when the IMF was in Europe. Producer Peter Sloman explained, "Bruce’s idea was that it should be intelligible to anyone who speaks only English, but it should look like German, Hungarian, whatever." (16-17) Examples include "machina werke" -- machine repair and "gäz" -- gas. Can you read the sign above? ( Video Link ) 13. For years after the show ended in 1973, producers considered reviving it. After several failed efforts, Mission: Impossible returned to the air in 1988 .

It ran for two years and starred Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, who returned to the Impossible Missions Force after the assassination of his protégé. 14. The new Mission: Impossible also starred Phil Morris, the son of actor Greg Morris. Greg Morris played Barney Collier during all seven seasons of the original show's run. Phil Morris played Grant Collier, the son of Barney Collier. They were a father and son team on the screen and in real life. Source: White, Patrick J. The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier. New York: Avon, 1991. Print. Images: CBS 'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies at 83 - USATODAY.com 'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies at 83 Updated Enlarge By Reed Saxon, AP Peter Graves, seen here Oct. 30 2009, poses during dedication ceremonies for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in L.A.. His movie career spanned classics such as Stalag 17 to comedies such as Airplane! but he is best remembered by many as the head of the Mission: Impossible force in the 1960s and 70s.

AP file photo Peter Graves, seen here in 1969, played Jim Phelps on the popular TV series Mission: Impossible. LOS ANGELES (AP)  Peter Graves , the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series Mission: Impossible, died Sunday. Graves died of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, publicist Sandy Brokaw said. He would have been 84 this week. Graves had just returned from brunch with his wife and kids and collapsed before he made it into the house, Brokaw said. One of his daughters administered CPR but was unable to revive him. Graves' family doctor visited the house and believed he had a heart attack, Brokaw said. Although Graves never achieved the stardom his older brother, James Arness , enjoyed as Marshall Matt Dillon on TV's Gunsmoke, he had a number of memorable roles in both films and television.

Normally cast as a hero, he turned in an unforgettable performance early in his career as the treacherous Nazi spy in Billy Wilder 's 1953 prisoner-of-war drama Stalag 17. He also masterfully lampooned his straight-arrow image when he portrayed bumbling airline pilot Clarence Oveur in Airplane!, the 1980 disaster movie spoof. Graves appeared in dozens of films and a handful of television shows in a career of nearly 60 years. The authority and trust he projected made him a favorite for commercials late in his life, and he was often encouraged to go into politics. "He had this statesmanlike quality," Brokaw said. "People were always encouraging him to run for office. But he said, 'I like acting. I like being around actors."' Graves' career began with cheaply made exploitation films like It Conquered the World, in which he battled a carrot-shaped monster from Venus, and Beginning of the End, in which he fought a giant grasshopper. He later took on equally formidable human villains each week on Mission: Impossible.

Every show began with Graves, as agent Phelps, listening to a tape of instructions outlining his team's latest mission and explaining that if he or any of his agents were killed or captured "the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." The tape always self-destructed within seconds of being played. The show ran on CBS from 1967 to 1973 and was revived on ABC from 1988 to 1990 with Graves back as the only original cast member. The actor credited clever writing for the show's success. "It made you think a little bit and kept you on the edge of your seat because you never knew what was going to happen next," he once said. He also played roles in such films as John Ford 's The Long Gray Line and Charles Laughton 's The Night of the Hunter, as well as The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell ,Texas Across the River and The Ballad of Josie. Graves' first television series was a children's Saturday morning show, Fury, about an orphan and his untamed black stallion. Filmed in Australia, it lasted six years on NBC .

A western, Whiplash, also shot in Australia, played for a year in syndication, and the British-made Court-Martial appeared on ABC for one season. In his later years, Graves brought his white-haired eminence to PBS as host of Discover: The World of Science and A&E's Biography series. He noted during an interview in 2000 that he made his foray into comedy somewhat reluctantly. Filmmakers Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker had written a satire on the airplane-in-trouble movies, and they wanted Graves and fellow handsome actors Lloyd Bridges , Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack to spoof their serious images. All agreed, but Graves admitted to nervousness. On the one hand, he said, he considered the role a challenge, "but it also scared me." "I thought I could lose a whole long acting career," he recalled. Airplane! became a box-office smash, and Graves returned for Airplane II, The Sequel. Born Peter Aurness in Minneapolis, Graves adopted his grandfather's last name to avoid confusion with his older brother, James, who had dropped the U from the family name.

He was a champion hurdler in high school, as well as a clarinet player in dance bands and a radio announcer. After two years in the Air Force, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota as a drama major and worked in summer stock before following his brother west to Hollywood. He found enough success there to send for his college sweetheart, Joan Endress. They were married in 1950 and had three daughters — Kelly Jean, Claudia King and Amanda Lee — and six grandchildren. Graves credited the couple's Midwest upbringing for a marriage that lasted more than 50 years in a town not known for long unions. "Hollywood or New York ... can be very flighty and dangerous places to live, but the good grounding we had in the Midwest ethic I think helped us all our lives," he said. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Posted E-mail | Print | To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com .

Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more . Peter Graves - TV.com Peter Graves EDIT Peter Graves was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Jim Phelps in the TV series Mission:Impossible, however he appeared in over seventy films and television shows. Graves was born Peter Aurness on 18 March 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series (Greg Morris and Lynda Day George) returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member (unseen) to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape" (in this series, "The Disc"), Bob Johnson. The events of the series take place 15 years after the last season of the original Mission: Impossible TV series. After his protégé and successor as leader of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force is killed, Jim Phelps is called out of retirement and asked to form a new IMF team and track down the assassin. His team consists of Nicholas Black, a disguise expert and actor; Max Harte, a strongman; Casey Randall, a model-turned-agent; and Grant Collier, the son of Barney Collier, the IMF's original technology expert, and a technical genius in his own right. After finding the killer, Jim decides to stay on and keep the team together.

Midway through season 1, Casey is killed during a mission (becoming the first ongoing IMF agent to be disavowed), and Secret Service agent Shannon Reed replaces her for the remainder of the series. With the exception of this cast change, Phelps' team remains constant throughout the series. Mission: Impossible Details Mission: Impossible (1966) | Mission Impossible | Fandom powered by Wikia Mission: Impossible (1988) Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) . In the first season, the IMF leader is Dan Briggs , played by Steven Hill , then in the second season, the team gets a new leader: Jim Phelps , played by Peter Graves . He remains the IMF leader until the end of the series. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, with seven seasons and 171 episodes. After another 15 years, though, the series would return with two additional seasons and then later would inspire a popular trio of movies in the 1990s and 2000s.

Each episode deals with the IMF performing a mission, usually with world leaders, rogue figures and in later episodes the mob underworld or known by the IMF as "the Syndicate". In most cases, the object of the mission was to eliminate the target by means of deception or elaborate means to convince the target that he is at another location or time has passed (either forward or backward), or to recover a valuable item which if fallen to the wrong hands of the target, would alter the government of a country. Sometimes the target would be a subordinate of a leader and the IMF must convince the leader that his subordinate is not on his/her side. The ultimate result of the missions are usually the target's disgrace among his associates, a secretly taped confession of the target, the target being shot by his own people, the target arrested by the police, or the recovery of the valuable item while trapping the target in a locked chamber. As this end result happens the IMF team members stealthy leave the area, usually in a vehicle although at least one time two IMF members left in a boat, and one member in a helicopter. Some episodes may show the team members leave the building or meeting together for one final summary of their completed mission.

With a few exceptions, the formula for each Mission: Impossible episode is the same each week for the first 4 seasons. Beginning with Season 5, an prologue was added to each episode. Contents Edit Considered to be among the most iconic moments of television, the tape scene is the first sequence of Mission Impossible. Briggs/Phelps is shown accessing a tape recorder with a manila envelope which contains pictures of the target(s) and other individuals who are affected by the target's actions. Usually the tape and envelope are in a store, where Briggs/Phelps exchange codes by casual conversation with the store owner - - thus the owner leaves so Briggs/Phelps can access the tape. Other times the tape is located in a parked car, telephone booth (where certain coins must be deposited in sequence to unlock the phone), a photo booth, fire alarm box, boat, darkroom, place of worship, toll booth, movie theater (indoor theater and outdoor drive in), skating rink, zoo, beach, warehouse, or cigarette machine.

Sometimes a phonograph, film reel, drive-in speaker, or telescope was used instead of the tape while in one instance Briggs received the instructions of his mission on a business card (in the Season 1 episode of " Memory "). Some tape sequences from Season 2 onward were reused more than once as stock footage for different episodes. From Season 5 onward, the tape scene in the prologue was usually shown after a brief introduction to the evening's episode though a situtation encountered by the target or his staff which inititates the mission. When the mission instructions are to infiltrate the "syndicate" and put the target out of business (who usually extorts legimate businesses or controls a specific operation), it is because "conventional law enforcement methods" are currently unable to obtain any incriminating evidence to arrest and prosecute the target. The tape instructions make no mention of any law enforcement agency (e.g. FBI) by name. The recorded voice for all episodes was done by Bob Johnson and is as follows: Good morning Mr. Briggs/Phelps. The man you are looking at is ... Your mission, should you decide/choose to accept it is to ...

As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed; the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self destruct in 5/10 seconds (or "please dispose this tape in the usual manner"). Good luck Dan/Jim. The tape itself is played backwards as the mission instructions are disseminated to Briggs/Phelps. At the end of the tape sequence when the tape "self destructs", smoke emits from the recording so as to render it useless to anyone who may find it. When the instructions are to simply dispose the tape, Briggs/Phelps would throw it into an incinerator, or use other means to render the recording useless. Exceptions to the tape sequence were usually "off-book" missions - - unsanctioned personal missions initiated by the IMF, usually to save a fellow team member or to save a personal friend - - such as Briggs saving the daughter of his friend who was about to testify against a mobster during his criminal trial. Sometimes an ongoing mission suddenly becomes "off -book" when an IMF member is captured or shot by the target, such as Cinnamon Carter or Jim Phelps in the respective Season 3 episodes "The Exchange" and "Nicole".

In Season 1 "Action", Cinnamon Carter retrieved the tape and it's instructions at a women's spa instead of Briggs (who was played by Steven Hill). This was because Hill, an Orthodox Jew, was getting more and more uncooperative with the crew during filming, he slowly was written out of the series in the final 5 episodes. Hill had to leave early Friday afternoons (and the day before major Jewish holidays) to observe the Sabbath; this constricted the filming schedule because the film crew had to work around Hill's religious obligations. Hill was replaced by Peter Graves at the start of Season 2, who remained the IMF leader for the rest of the MI series. Dossier Sequence Edit The second sequence is the shortest and simply shows Briggs/Phelps in their respective apartments using a black leather binder with the words "Impossible Missions Force" engraved on it. Briggs/Phelps would look over photos of IMF team members, selecting only those suited for the mission (usually the regular cast) and putting aside the rejected photos.

Briggs/Phelps would also select one to three additional IMF members (as guest stars) in a specific mission, usually an expert in the type of work needed to carry out the mission, such as a circus performer to stage an eye-opening show as to create a distraction to break out someone in prison nearby or a doctor to carry out an non-lethal injection to temporarily disable the target. Once done, Briggs/Phelps would leave the binder on the table. In later seasons, Phelps selected IMF quasi-mode orginizations, such as The Hartford and Globe Repertory Companies - - a team of up to twenty workers dedicated to a specific part of the mission, such as fake prison guards or acting as a crew of a submarine or caterers of a "party". Again, as in the tape sequence, the footage of some dossier sequences may appear in more than one episode. In Season 1, Martin Landau was credited as "Special Guest Star" as his dossier picture was shown (and, of course selected), however he was made permanent cast member for Seasons 2 and 3.

In "Action" (when she recovered the tape), Carter is not shown selecting the IMF members, however her usual picture was already laid out anyway - - thus she would technically be the first and only IMF team member to "select" herself in the dossier sequence. Beginning with Season 3, the dossier sequence was used less often, only to select a special IMF "guest", the repertory companies or a special animal, until this segment was eliminated by the end of Season 4, although the IMF continued to receive support in later seasons when needed. (such as people dressed up in a fake 1930's city in the Season 6 episode "Encore".) Apartment Sequence Edit The third sequence involves what is called "The Plan"; the selected IMF members meet in Briggs/Phelps apartment to discuss the logistics of their mission. Each member would be assigned to a specific task as they iron out any loose ends to their mission. The apartment's furniture has shades of black and white giving the initial appearance that these scenes were shot in black and white (actual footage was shot in color).

Briggs/Phelps would confer with each member as to how their part of the mission would be carried out, often with a demonstration of their gadgets to be used - - from simple devices like a ring which sends a signal to melt currency when activated or a rigged deck of cards to more complex settings such as a staged film or special wheelchair which secretly holds a person inside; a nod to Q branch showing gadgets to 007 in the James Bond films. Usually Barney or Willy would tell Briggs/Phelps that the equipment needed would be "already ready" or there would be little or no difficulty in carrying out a specific event. It is implied that the IMF has unlimited resources at their disposal; often they are obtained almost immediately, given the urgency and timeliness of their missions. Each IMF member is informed on what their responsibilities are, as well as being appraised of the other team members’ responsibilities. Any possible setbacks in carrying out their plans were addressed in this sequence.

The Mission Edit The IMF members now set off to perform the mission, which involves various degrees of complexity: uniforms needed (usually guard uniforms), type of equipment needed (vehicles, machines, etc), forged documents (ID cards, passports, letters, etc.) and in many instances, makeup and disguises. Part or all of the IMF team members arrive at the target's residence or work location in a non-descript vehicle or car, with the rest of the group joining them within the location, albeit somewhere else nearby. Electronic equipment was supplied by Barney Collier, with Willy Armitage usually helping Barney with some heavy stuff. Rollin Hand (and later the Great Paris) supplied the makeup to instantly change their faces to look like the target themselves or someone else. In one instance, Rollin Hand would be disguised as a mobster (who was already captured and drugged by other IMF members) then convinces the mobster's subordinates to perform plastic surgery to make him look like someone else to avoid detection by police after the mob "killed" Graves (actually the makeup was peeled off to show Rollin while Graves survives the attack by hiding in an underground bunker).

Phone calls were usually rerouted to IMF team members for either wiretap purposes or to "send" a crew over to fix a problem encountered by the target (intentionally done by Barney or Willy) while in other instances a secretly taped recording of the target's (or his subordinates) confession was obtained. The IMF also used phony TV and radio broadcasts to "convince" the target that something happened already, a ruse by the IMF in tricking the target. Complex jobs were even handled by the IMF, such as a warehouse to stage a simulated train ride, ensuring train "derailment" and "hospital". Other complex methods were a machine which makes counterfeit currency, a large "jail" complete with a simulated execution chamber, a submarine with fake crew members, and even a nuclear testing site which duplicates the actual site needed. The IMF usually sets up their complex jobs inside a warehouse or airport hangar to create "rooms" and machines that simulate the actual setting the target (or subordinates) use. For example: In order to obtain the codes for diffusing a nuclear bomb inside a testing facility, the IMF drugs the target unconscious and transports him to the warehouse where the an identical setting is created (after a fake nuclear attack happened).

Unaware of this, the target walks around the "rooms" then tries to diffuse the dummy bomb planted by the IMF - - all while recording the events so Phelps can transmit this information to Barney Collier who is working to remove the real bomb. Animals used to complete their missions were a cat, dog, bats, and even a falcon (in the Season 4 episode, "The Falcon", the only three-part episode in the series.) Areas were "set up" as a means to expose the target's intented actions, such as allowing the target to kill someone he knows - - only disguised by the IMF as another person whom the target didn't intend to kill. They also set up "rooms" to allow the target in conducting a private search, often leaving a "object", such as fake ID, large amounts of currency or a valuable item - - all which influences the target in knowing more about who he is dealing with. Usually many IMF Targets (or their underlings) were sometimes captured by the IMF and quickly replaced by Hand/Paris with their likeness, including their voices dubbed to make other people appear that they look real.

In early episodes, the painstakingly detail of applying makeup was shown, however as the series progressed, most viewers were accustomed to see the disguises anyway so the detail was left off. Other mechanisms such as elevators and cars were usually placed under the IMF's control while many missions involve crawling under tunnels. Sometimes two IMF members played "husband and wife", or "father and daughter", usually with Cinnamon Carter playing the female fatale to distract the target. The visual instructions on what each member (in most cases with Collier because of his electronics experience) does (such as setting up equipment, splicing a reel, etc) take up most of the episode's time, while the viewer does not know the outcome or result until towards the end when the IMF completes the set-up and executes their final moves on the target.

Most of the IMF crew has impersonated the following: Government agents, police officers, doctors, bank guards, truck drivers, weapons dealers, jail guards, inmates (on purpose to get closer to the target or to free someone else from jail), chess players, gamblers, mobsters, food service workers, investors, electricians, repairmen, actors, film crew, wardens, sheiks, museum curators, Nazi members, news reporters, taxi drivers, and protesters. All team members are trained to confront every variable in their missions; especially when one or more IMF members are about to be exposed. They can "talk their way" out of anything to convince the target (usually before and after commercial breaks). While at the target's location, they are also trained to be aware about the target recording their phone calls or being videotaped - - often with a slow and deliberate manner in their voice so that the other IMF member receiving the telephone call will adjust their identity at a moment's notice. Such case of adjusting identity is the Season 3 episode "The Town" when Rollin Hand calls "Mrs.

Phelps" (Carter) to let her and "Little Willy" to come over to save Jim Phelps who was temporarily paralayzed by a rogue doctor working with the entire town on an assassination attempt in Los Angeles. The critical part of evey mission is psychology, how to use it against the target and to ensure that the IMF members remain calm - - assessing every situtuation with the possible outcome(s). In some cases, the IMF must be aware what the target may do as a trap. In Season 3, Episode 16 "The Glass Cage", Carter impersonates a high level prison official who calls the target's bluff when he hires two prison guards to make it look like the real prison offical enters the office which Carter and the target are engaged in a conversation. As the target "claims" that the real prison official enters the office with her escort, Carter identifies them as imposters, eliminating a potentional situtation if handled the wrong way. Every move the IMF team makes must be played with perfect timing and the right words to use against the target. Because the IMF is an independent agency operating outside the scope of any law-enforcment agency, killing anyone is strongly discouraged except in self-defense.

Most confrontations between IMF members and their enemies often result in knocking the enemy out. Conclusion Edit As the mission winds down, the IMF members slowly gather themselves together to exit quietly from the target's location(s), while other people discover the target's true intentions or the trap has been skillfully executed by the IMF. When the members watch the target being exposed by others, they conjure any excuse to leave the area, such as "I have a plane to catch" or "He is all yours" then run off to meet the rest of the IMF group in their getaway vehicle. Usually when the last IMF member(s) leave the area, they do so while the target is about to be shot or arrested - - often hearing a gunshot in the background in the case of the target being killed off-screen by those who disbelieve him/her. The final scene usually consists of the IMF members getting into a car, truck, bus or any other vehicle then making their exit - - often undetected by anyone and without any dialogue. However in the last 2 seasons, the obligatory IMF "exit" was shown less frequently and relied more of tying up loose ends in the story arc.

More frequently shown in these 2 seasons was the IMF and law enforcement capturing the target red handed at the very end of each episode. Seasons

Question: Who played 'Jim Phelps', the lead agent, in the TV series 'Mission: Impossible'?
Answer: PETER GRAVES